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Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Adam Savage (Author, Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio UK (Publisher)

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MythBusters’ Adam Savage - Discovery Channel star and one of the most beloved figures in science and tech - shares his golden rules of creativity, from finding inspiration to following through and successfully turning your idea into reality.

Adam Savage is a maker. From Chewbacca’s bandolier to a thousand-shot Nerf gun, he has built thousands of spectacular projects as a special effects artist and the cohost of MythBusters. Adam is also an educator, passionate about instilling the principles of making in the next generation of inventors and inspiring them to turn their curiosity into creation.

In this practical and passionate guide, Adam weaves together vivid personal stories, original sketches and photographs from some of his most memorable projects, and interviews with many of his iconic and visionary friends in the arts and sciences - including Pixar director Andrew Stanton, Nick Offerman, Oscar-winner Guillermo Del Toro and artist Tom Sachs - to demonstrate the many lessons he has picked up from a lifetime of making.

Things like: don’t wait until everything is perfect - in your workshop or in your life - to begin. Plan with pencil and paper. Sweep up every day. Learn from doing. Share your toys. There is an exact tool for every task (Adam probably has four of them in his wondrous shop), but if you need to pound in a nail and all you have handy is a skill saw - hammer away. The most important thing, always, is just that you make something.

Every Tool’s a Hammer is sure to guide and inspire you to build, make, invent, explore and, most of all, enjoy the thrills of being a creator.

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Listening Length	7 hours and 45 minutes
Author	Adam Savage
Narrator	Adam Savage
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	30 May 2019
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio UK
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07S1BPF65
Best Sellers Rank	903 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 22 in Biographies of Actors & Entertainers 24 in Biographies of Celebrities & Entertainment Professionals

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Michael Sturdy

A useful book for any creative Person

Reviewed in Australia on 23 October 2020

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Probably one of the most charming and insightful books I have read in a long time. Full of personal little insights and perspectives from a man who once described himself as blower-upper of stuff. Adam's tone and enthusiasm comes across as part wise and knowledgeable, with a huge dose of mad scientist and gleeful giggling big kid, which I think is sadly lacking in everyone else.
I recommend this book to any one who is a maker, or creatively included. I especially recommend this to any young teens and kids who are just starting out with making & turning their ideas and dreams into reality. Thank you for such a wonderful book Adam.

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John Foss

POSITIVE RESPONSE

Reviewed in Australia on 9 August 2020

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Everything worked out well - but a little late for my son's birthday. Understandable during Virus problems. No complaints. Book quality hard cover - excellent.

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Mark Whitehead

A must read for educators and students alike.

Reviewed in Australia on 12 June 2019

This is a beautiful book. If you are a maker or know and aspiring maker this book is a must.
Via words and beautiful supporting photographs we are shown convincingly that the approach of practice and persistence will see you through.
The magic of this book is that Adam bravely deconstructs his process and gives us tangible ways to be better.

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Mark Chisholm

Mostly Banal - But Passably Interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 July 2019

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I, like many people have enjoyed (to an extent) Mythbusters and of course therefore know who Adam Savage is or rather who his media image is.

Because of that I bought this book on a whim and because of the glowing reviews. Mainly that he is an extraordinary maker of models and other things.

Well, I'm always interested in learning more from highly skilled people who can create something at the very least interesting.

But, there's a 'But.'

I'm an old school marine engineer - an ex Chief Engineer - and I work in the oil industry in offshore construction. I've built houses and have two workshops. My grandfather was a tool-maker and my uncle a fitter and turner in a shipyard. In fact my entire family for generations have been people who worked in heavy industry making things like ships, turbines and precision tools. It's in my blood.

And because of that I'm fascinated by the new wave of what I'm beginning to think of as a bit wishy, washy 'makers' movement.

We used to call it DIY or model making and the people who did it created steam engines, made train layouts, model boats or made incredible bits of furniture. Today to be called a 'maker' you pour a bit of multi-coloured paint on a spinning disc or knock out yet another Damascus knife.

What I'm getting to is that what I consider a 'maker' and what many of the new movement consider it to be are two different things. And that's where this book to me is a bit 'wet.'

I was hoping to learn a bit more about Adam and find out more about his work on movies. And, whilst there is some of that, much of this book is padding and revolves around the modern idea of what a 'maker' is.

To me a maker is someone who can do complicated stuff on machine tools or use a woodworking shop to create an incredible piece of furniture, or designing and fabricating a huge dynamically positioned offshore heavy lift ship.

Much of this boils down to how to make a model 'thing' and there are plenty of actual YouTube video's about that around. There was a lump of this book dedicated to designing and making a replica Blade Runner gun. This involved a whole section on how to make a list of things to do. Hmmm.

In the end I found this to be easy to read, moderately good but ultimately unsatisfying.

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Not at all what I was hoping for

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 December 2019

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The premise of this book sounded good from the jacket description: clearly the author has made a lot of interesting things, and I was hoping for lots of examples, and practical tips. There are some in there, certainly, but I just couldn't stomach the pages and pages of pop-psychology, self-help style affirmations, and, above all the 'ME, ME, it's all about ME!' style of the book. I gave up after a couple of chapters.

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Jeremiah Jobling

Part autobiography, part how-to manual

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2019

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This wasn't quite the book I expected. It's lighter on the technical detail than I thought it'd be, but has a lot more about the higher level "how" and "why" of making more generally. The autobiographical stuff is great. Adam's enthusiasm is infectious. He'd definitely be a great guy to have a beer with.

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Danelectro

Anecdotal Advice from the Patron Saint of Cosplay

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 June 2019

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I've been a fan of Adam's work for years. I first found him on YouTube with Tested and found his prop and costume videos especially inspiring; I love his passion for what he does and was eager to read in more detail about his creative journey and the process he uses while working.

This book delivered all that and more. Filled with funny anecdotes and hard won lessons of how to mess up and learn from your mistakes, Adam's book is a veritable Bible for any aspiring maker, whether you build, sew, foamsmith, woodwork, etc, this book is full of useful tips, tricks, and life lessons. I couldn't put it down!

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Markie

Not sure what I was expecting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 December 2019

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I've been big fan of Adam for many years, from his Mythbusters days to Tested and his podcast. I do like his ethos to science, learning and being a maker. I wasn't sure what this book was going to give me. I've read it and enjoyed it, but I'm not sure it fully gave me what i was looking for. Which might be a bit tough of me for a review. I did pick up some tips for my maker life, and learnt some history about Adam. So a partial success.

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